{"id":33053,"date":"2010-06-08T09:17:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T13:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/1194e7597f7fa92162d1ae21fc61fb44"},"modified":"2010-06-08T09:17:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T13:17:19","slug":"discovery-astronauts-continue-preparations-for-sts-133","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=33053","title":{"rendered":"Discovery, Astronauts Continue Preparations for STS-133"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shuttle Discovery is inside its processing hangar at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, undergoing standard launch processing for the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station. Technicians today will begin removing hydrogen tank No. 5 from Discovery&#8217;s power reactant storage and distribution, or PRSD, system. The system&#8217;s oxygen tank No. 5 is planned for removal this weekend. Part of the shuttle&#8217;s electrical power system, the PRSD stores hydrogen and oxygen at supercool temperatures for the fuel cells. <\/p>\n<p>At NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the STS-133 astronauts are meeting today with the STS-132 crew for a mission debrief, and practicing entry skills in the motion-based simulator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shuttle Discovery is inside its processing hangar at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, undergoing standard launch processing for the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station. Technicians today will begin removing hydrogen tank No. 5 from Discovery&#8217;s power reactant storage and distribution, or PRSD, system. The system&#8217;s oxygen tank No. 5 is planned for removal this weekend. Part of the shuttle&#8217;s electrical power system, the PRSD stores hydrogen and oxygen at supercool temperatures for the fuel cells. <\/p>\n<p>At NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the STS-133 astronauts are meeting today with the STS-132 crew for a mission debrief, and practicing entry skills in the motion-based simulator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shuttle-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}